Urban

Latin Urbānus, name of eight early popes, from urbānus (“of the town or city, urbane”). Doublet of Orban.

Urban (countable and uncountable, plural Urbans)

1. (uncommon) A male given name from Latin.
2. A surname originating as a patronymic.
3. (biblical) An early Christian, also Urbane and Urbanus in various versions of the Bible.
   • 1380s, Wycliffe translation of the Bible, Romans 16:9:

     Grete wel Vrban, oure helpere in Crist Jhesus, and Stacchen, my derlyng.

• Braun, Buran, Rabun, aburn, buran, unabr., unbar

• IPA^(key): [ˈurban]

Urban m anim (female equivalent Urbanová)

1. a male surname

• “Urban”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)

Learned borrowing from Latin Urbānus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈur.ban/

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• Rhymes: -urban
• Syllabification: Ur‧ban

Urban m pers

1. a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Urban
2. a male surname

Urban f (indeclinable)

1. a female surname

• Urban in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• “Urban”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland], 2022

Borrowed from Polish Urban.

Urban m (genitive/dative lui Urban)

1. a surname from Polish

• Iordan, Iorgu (1983) Dicționar al numelor de familie românești [A Dictionary of Romanian Family Names]‎^[1], Bucharest: Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică

• IPA^(key): [ˈurban]

Urban m pers

1. a male given name

Urban m pers (female equivalent Urbanová)

1. a male surname transferred from the given name

• “Urban”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

• IPA^(key): /urbán/, /urbáːn/

Urbȁn or Urbȃn m anim

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Urban

• “Urban”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

Urban c (genitive Urbans)

1. a male given name, which peaked in popularity in the 1940s and 1950s. Cognate to Urban

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